ARM64 vs AMD64

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 at 19:08, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Why what, why run the next version, or why run more boxes with next LTS?

Huh?

You said 21.04. That is *not* an LTS. LTS releases are only on
even-numbered years.

> I
> admit that since the move to Gnome from Unity (ok Unity is sort of still
> possible) I guess I want to get used to it before I need to have it, and maybe
> see whats new, I do like 16.04 and will miss it when support stops, not that I
> need to stop using, I think I have a 14.04.5 somewhere

What's what the short-term releases are for, IMHO.

> I'd say half my flock will not get to 20.04, moving forward who can tell, min
> Ram has doubled

Er... OK. I mean, old RAM is cheap.

> I made that move (on Netbook) to see "if" it would work, and hoped that 18.04
> to 20.04 would also work (WRONG) I'm slowly getting the boxes with non-LTS
> versions to either an LTS release or the latest (supported ) non-LTS, I have
> very slow broadband so it takes time

It used to be possible to upgrade from the "alternate" CD but I don't
think there is one any more.

You could run a local caching proxy. Something like IPCop makes that very easy.

> >I thought it died and was shut down years ago. The
> >website has even gone AFAICS.
>
> No it's still here
>
> http://puppylinux.com/

Which does not work. I _did_ check before I asked, you know. 403 error.

> Given that Puppy is based on LTS versions of Ubuntu, (RaspPup ?)  new versions
> are only every two years

The original Puppy isn't based off Ubuntu. Barry Kauler did do a test
build based off it, but the main distro was independent, AFAIK. He
retired in 2013:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup
-6.0-CE/release-Tahrpup-6.0.2-CE.htm

> Ubuntu Focal 64         x86_64 64-bit   FossaPup64 9.5
> Raspbian Buster         armhf 32-bit            Raspup 8.2.1
> Ubuntu Bionic           x86 32-bit              BionicPup32 8.0
> Ubuntu Bionic 64        x86_64 64-bit   BionicPup64 8.0
> Ubuntu Xenial           x86 32-bit              XenialPup 7.5
> Ubuntu Xenial 64        x86_64 64-bit   XenialPup64 7.5
> Slackware 14.1          x86 32-bit              SlackoPuppy 6.3.2
> Slackware64 14.1                x86_64 64-bit   Slacko64Puppy 6.3.2
> Ubuntu Trusty           x86 32-bit              Tahrpup 6.0.5
> Ubuntu Trusty 64        x86_64 64-bit   Tahrpup64 6.0.5

How odd. Someone else seems to be continuing with the same name. I did
not know, and to me, the website is dead. I wonder if whoever runs it
blocks the Czech Republic?


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